This is an analysis of the poem Among The Hills that begins with:
Far off, to eastward, I see the wide hill sloping
Up to the place where the pines and sky are one;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb X cdc ae Xe dce cXddbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,2,2,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101110 10011011111 101010011010 1100101110001 01100101011 00101110001101 11011101010 1100011011111 110101111110 0101011010111 011011101010 11101101000101 1111110101010 101010100010101 0011000101110 1010101110101 11111011010110 11110100101010 111101010101010 101000110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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